Cataract Surgery News

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Alan R. Faulkner, MD, shares his experience with the Ally system from Lensar for femtosecond cataract surgery.

Compared with methods of manual cataract extraction, phacoemulsification offers so many benefits such as a smaller incision, a higher margin of safety and a faster recovery of vision for our patients.

Part one of this series focused on balancing the three interrelated concepts of presbyopia-correcting or visual range IOLs: visual quality, visual range and visual symptoms, or dysphotopsias.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Gábor B. Scharioth, MD, PhD, speaks about the advantages of low IOP phacoemulsification.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Pavel Stodulka, MD, PhD, discusses the Perfect Lens procedure.

While there are currently no FDA-approved pharmacological therapies for the treatment of cataracts, an eye drop demonstrated promising vision improvements in patients with early-stage cataracts in a phase 1/2 clinical trial.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, speaks about the physical principles of extended depth of focus lenses.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Francesco Carones, MD, shares his clinical experience with the Tecnis PureSee IOL.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from Presbyopia 2024, held before the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Fritz Hengerer, MD, PhD, discusses the OmniVu modular shape-changing IOL.

With cataract surgery, our primary goal is simple: to improve visual quality by eliminating the symptoms of poor contrast, blurred vision and glare from the cataract.